Hybrid Sydney Solutions Architect: API & Integration Lead

DWS; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

DWS is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to join a major regulatory technology delivery portfolio in Sydney. The role involves collaborating closely with engineers, TBAs, platform teams and vendors to deliver practical, buildable solutions across complex enterprise environments.

The position is hybrid with 3+ days onsite in Sydney, NSW, offering a salary of up to $200K package (inc super) for permanent roles. Start ASAP and ACN contractor or max term options are available.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a hands-on Solution Architect.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain Solution Architecture Documents (SADs), High-Level Solution Architecture artefacts and Solution Design Documents (SDDs).
• Define REST APIs, interface contracts, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, request/response models, schemas and error handling.
• Develop system context, component, integration, sequence, data-flow and deployment diagrams.
• Design synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns, including API, event, messaging, batch and file-based interfaces.
• Work with engineering teams to define microservice boundaries, responsibilities and contracts.
• Define system-of-record responsibilities, data ownership, data flows, identifiers, reconciliation requirements and state transitions.
• Analyse impacts to legacy systems and design coexistence approaches between legacy and modern platforms.
• Define migration, transition, cutover, rollback and reconciliation strategies.
• Work with security and identity teams to define authentication, authorisation and security requirements.
• Define non-functional requirements covering availability, resilience, scalability, performance, observability and recoverability.
• Lead technical design workshops and support backlog refinement activities.
• Work directly with developers and technical leads throughout implementation.
• Review detailed designs and implementation approaches for alignment with agreed architecture.
• Resolve solution and integration issues encountered during delivery.
• Maintain architecture decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks and deviations.
• Support testing, release readiness, operational transition and knowledge transfer activities.

Skills

Solution architecture

API design

AWS

OpenAPI

REST APIs

Event-driven

Kubernetes

Security & IAM

Stakeholder mgmt

Legacy modernization

Tools

AWS

EKS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Kafka

Confluent

GraphQL

OpenAPI

Job description

DWS is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to join a major regulatory technology delivery portfolio in Sydney. The role involves collaborating closely with engineers, TBAs, platform teams and vendors to deliver practical, buildable solutions across complex enterprise environments.

The position is hybrid with 3+ days onsite in Sydney, NSW, offering a salary of up to $200K package (inc super) for permanent roles. Start ASAP and ACN contractor or max term options are available.